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SECTION 1. LEGISLATURE - POWER AND STRUCTURE    The legislative power is vested in a General Assemblyconsisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives,elected by the electors from 59 Legislative Districts and 118Representative Districts.(Source: Amendment adopted at general election November 4,1980.)SECTION 2. LEGISLATIVE COMPOSITION    (a)  One Senator shall be elected from each LegislativeDistrict. Immediately following each decennial redistricting,the General Assembly by law shall divide the LegislativeDistricts as equally as possible into three groups. Senatorsfrom one group shall be elected for terms of four years, fouryears and two years; Senators from the second group, forterms of four years, two years and four years; and Senatorsfrom the third group, for terms of two years, four years andfour years. The Legislative Districts in each group shall bedistributed substantially equally over the State.    (b)  Each Legislative District shall be divided into twoRepresentative Districts. In 1982 and every two yearsthereafter one Representative shall be elected from eachRepresentative District for a term of two years.    (c)  To be eligible to serve as a member of the GeneralAssembly, a person must be a United States citizen, at least21 years old, and for the two years preceding his election orappointment a resident of the district which he is torepresent. In the general election following a redistricting,a candidate for the General Assembly may be elected from anydistrict which contains a part of the district in which heresided at the time of the redistricting and reelected if aresident of the new district he represents for 18 monthsprior to reelection.    (d)  Within thirty days after a vacancy occurs, it shallbe filled by appointment as provided by law. If the vacancyis in a Senatorial office with more than twenty-eight monthsremaining in the term, the appointed Senator shall serveuntil the next general election, at which time a Senatorshall be elected to serve for the remainder of the term. Ifthe vacancy is in a Representative office or in any otherSenatorial office, the appointment shall be for the remainderof the term. An appointee to fill a vacancy shall be a memberof the same political party as the person he succeeds.    (e)  No member of the General Assembly shall receivecompensation as a public officer or employee from any othergovernmental entity for time during which he is in attendanceas a member of the General Assembly.    No member of the General Assembly during the term forwhich he was elected or appointed shall be appointed to apublic office which shall have been created or thecompensation for which shall have been increased by theGeneral Assembly during that term.(Source: Amendment adopted at general election November 4,1980.)SECTION 3. LEGISLATIVE REDISTRICTING    (a)  Legislative Districts shall be compact, contiguousand substantially equal in population. RepresentativeDistricts shall be compact, contiguous, and substantiallyequal in population.    (b)  In the year following each Federal decennial censusyear, the General Assembly by law shall redistrict theLegislative Districts and the Representative Districts.    If no redistricting plan becomes effective by June 30 ofthat year, a Legislative Redistricting Commission shall beconstituted not later than July 10. The Commission shallconsist of eight members, no more than four of whom shall bemembers of the same political party.    The Speaker and Minority Leader of the House ofRepresentatives shall each appoint to the Commission oneRepresentative and one person who is not a member of theGeneral Assembly. The President and Minority Leader of theSenate shall each appoint to the Commission one Senator andone person who is not a member of the General Assembly.    The members shall be certified to the Secretary of Stateby the appointing authorities. A vacancy on the Commissionshall be filled within five days by the authority that madethe original appointment. A Chairman and Vice Chairman shallbe chosen by a majority of all members of the Commission.    Not later than August 10, the Commission shall file withthe Secretary of State a redistricting plan approved by atleast five members.    If the Commission fails to file an approved redistrictingplan, the Supreme Court shall submit the names of twopersons, not of the same political party, to the Secretary ofState not later than September 1.    Not later than September 5, the Secretary of Statepublicly shall draw by random selection the name of one ofthe two persons to serve as the ninth member of theCommission.    Not later than October 5, the Commission shall file withthe Secretary of State a redistricting plan approved by atleast five members.    An approved redistricting plan filed with the Secretaryof State shall be presumed valid, shall have the force andeffect of law and shall be published promptly by theSecretary of State.    The Supreme Court shall have original and exclusivejurisdiction over actions concerning redistricting the Houseand Senate, which shall be initiated in the name of thePeople of the State by the Attorney General.(Source: Amendment adopted at general election November 4,1980.)SECTION 4. ELECTION    Members of the General Assembly shall be elected at thegeneral election in even-numbered years.(Source: Illinois Constitution.)SECTION 5. SESSIONS    (a)  The General Assembly shall convene each year on thesecond Wednesday of January. The General Assembly shall be acontinuous body during the term for which members of theHouse of Representatives are elected.    (b)  The Governor may convene the General Assembly or theSenate alone in special session by a proclamation stating thepurpose of the session; and only business encompassed by suchpurpose, together with any impeachments or confirmation ofappointments shall be transacted. Special sessions of theGeneral Assembly may also be convened by joint proclamationof the presiding officers of both houses, issued as providedby law.    (c)  Sessions of each house of the General Assembly andmeetings of committees, joint committees and legislativecommissions shall be open to the public. Sessions andcommittee meetings of a house may be closed to the public iftwo-thirds of the members elected to that house determinethat the public interest so requires; and meetings of jointcommittees and legislative commissions may be so closed iftwo-thirds of the members elected to each house so determine.(Source: Illinois Constitution.)SECTION 6. ORGANIZATION    (a)  A majority of the members elected to each houseconstitutes a quorum.    (b)  On the first day of the January session of theGeneral Assembly in odd-numbered years, the Secretary ofState shall convene the House of Representatives to electfrom its membership a Speaker of the House of Representativesas presiding officer, and the Governor shall convene theSenate to elect from its membership a President of the Senateas presiding officer.    (c)  For purposes of powers of appointment conferred bythis Constitution, the Minority Leader of either house is amember of the numerically strongest political party otherthan the party to which the Speaker or the President belongs,as the case may be.    (d)  Each house shall determine the rules of itsproceedings, judge the elections, returns and qualificationsof its members and choose its officers. No member shall beexpelled by either house, except by a vote of two-thirds ofthe members elected to that house. A member may be expelledonly once for the same offense. Each house may punish byimprisonment any person, not a member, guilty of disrespectto the house by disorderly or contemptuous behavior in itspresence. Imprisonment shall not extend beyond twenty-fourhours at one time unless the person persists in disorderly orcontemptuous behavior.(Source: Illinois Constitution.)SECTION 7. TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS    (a)  Committees of each house, joint committees of thetwo houses and legislative commissions shall give reasonablepublic notice of meetings, including a statement of subjectsto be considered.    (b)  Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedingsand a transcript of its debates. The journal shall bepublished and the transcript shall be available to thepublic.    (c)  Either house or any committee thereof as provided bylaw may compel by subpoena the attendance and testimony ofwitnesses and the production of books, records and papers.(Source: Illinois Constitution.)SECTION 8. PASSAGE OF BILLS    (a)  The enacting clause of the laws of this State shallbe: "Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,represented in the General Assembly."    (b)  The General Assembly shall enact laws only by bill.Bills may originate in either house, but may be amended orrejected by the other.    (c)  No bill shall become a law without the concurrenceof a majority of the members elected to each house. Finalpassage of a bill shall be by record vote. In the Senate atthe request of two members, and in the House at the requestof five members, a record vote may be taken on any otheroccasion. A record vote is a vote by yeas and nays entered onthe journal.    (d)  A bill shall be read by title on three differentdays in each house. A bill and each amendment thereto shallbe reproduced and placed on the desk of each member beforefinal passage.    Bills, except bills for appropriations and for thecodification, revision or rearrangement of laws, shall beconfined to one subject. Appropriation bills shall be limitedto the subject of appropriations.    A bill expressly amending a law shall set forthcompletely the sections amended.    The Speaker of the House of Representatives and thePresident of the Senate shall sign each bill that passes bothhouses to certify that the procedural requirements forpassage have been met.(Source: Illinois Constitution.)SECTION 9. VETO PROCEDURE    (a)  Every bill passed by the General Assembly shall bepresented to the Governor within 30 calendar days after itspassage. The foregoing requirement shall be judiciallyenforceable. If the Governor approves the bill, he shall signit and it shall become law.    (b)  If the Governor does not approve the bill, he shallveto it by returning it with his objections to the house inwhich it originated. Any bill not so returned by the Governorwithin 60 calendar days after it is presented to him shallbecome law. If recess or adjournment of the General Assemblyprevents the return of a bill, the bill and the Governor'sobjections shall be filed with the Secretary of State withinsuch 60 calendar days. The Secretary of State shall returnthe bill and objections to the originating house promptlyupon the next meeting of the same General Assembly at whichthe bill can be considered.    (c)  The house to which a bill is returned shallimmediately enter the Governor's objections upon its journal.If within 15 calendar days after such entry that house by arecord vote of three-fifths of the members elected passes thebill, it shall be delivered immediately to the second house.If within 15 calendar days after such delivery the secondhouse by a record vote of three-fifths of the members electedpasses the bill, it shall become law.    (d)  The Governor may reduce or veto any item ofappropriations in a bill presented to him. Portions of a billnot reduced or vetoed shall become law. An item vetoed shallbe returned to the house in which it originated and maybecome law in the same manner as a vetoed bill. An itemreduced in amount shall be returned to the house in which itoriginated and may be restored to its original amount in thesame manner as a vetoed bill except that the required recordvote shall be a majority of the members elected to eachhouse. If a reduced item is not so restored, it shall becomelaw in the reduced amount.    (e)  The Governor may return a bill together withspecific recommendations for change to the house in which itoriginated. The bill shall be considered in the same manneras a vetoed bill but the specific recommendations may beaccepted by a record vote of a majority of the memberselected to each house. Such bill shall be presented again tothe Governor and if he certifies that such acceptanceconforms to his specific recommendations, the bill shallbecome law. If he does not so certify, he shall return it asa vetoed bill to the house in which it originated.(Source: Illinois Constitution.)SECTION 10. EFFECTIVE DATE OF LAWS    The General Assembly shall provide by law for a uniformeffective date for laws passed prior to June 1 of a calendaryear. The General Assembly may provide for a differenteffective date in any law passed prior to June 1. A billpassed after May 31 shall not become effective prior to June1 of the next calendar year unless the General Assembly bythe vote of three-fifths of the members elected to each houseprovides for an earlier effective date.(Source: Amendment adopted at general election November 8,1994.)SECTION 11. COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES    A member shall receive a salary and allowances asprovided by law, but changes in the salary of a member shallnot take effect during the term for which he has beenelected.(Source: Illinois Constitution.)SECTION 12. LEGISLATIVE IMMUNITY    Except in cases of treason, felony or breach of peace, amember shall be privileged from arrest going to, during, andreturning from sessions of the General Assembly. A membershall not be held to answer before any other tribunal for anyspeech or debate, written or oral, in either house. Theseimmunities shall apply to committee and legislativecommission proceedings.(Source: Illinois Constitution.)SECTION 13. SPECIAL LEGISLATION    The General Assembly shall pass no special or local lawwhen a general law is or can be made applicable. Whether ageneral law is or can be made applicable shall be a matterfor judicial determination.(Source: Illinois Constitution.)SECTION 14. IMPEACHMENT    The House of Representatives has the sole power toconduct legislative investigations to determine the existenceof cause for impeachment and, by the vote of a majority ofthe members elected, to impeach Executive and Judicialofficers. Impeachments shall be tried by the Senate. Whensitting for that purpose, Senators shall be upon oath, oraffirmation, to do justice according to law. If the Governoris tried, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shallpreside. No person shall be convicted without the concurrenceof two-thirds of the Senators elected. Judgment shall notextend beyond removal from office and disqualification tohold any public office of this State. An impeached officer,whether convicted or acquitted, shall be liable toprosecution, trial, judgment and punishment according to law.(Source: Illinois Constitution.)SECTION 15. ADJOURNMENT    (a)  When the General Assembly is in session, neitherhouse without the consent of the other shall adjourn for morethan three days or to a place other than where the two housesare sitting.    (b)  If either house certifies that a disagreement existsbetween the houses as to the time for adjourning a session,the Governor may adjourn the General Assembly to a time notlater than the first day of the next annual session.(Source: Illinois Constitution.)

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